Built in 1916 (Prairie School architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
From the record
“The Medford Free Public Library is a Carnegie library in Medford, Wisconsin, built in 1916. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.”
Wikipedia article Medford Free Public Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Taylor County · listed in 1993 · category: Building · built in 1916, Prairie School architecture, by Hans Theodore Liebert.
Also known as. Public Library Facilities of Wisconsin MPS
City. Medford city
When was it built? 1916
Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
Architect. Hans Theodore Liebert
National Register reference number.93000259- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
135 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Medford Free Public Library
between 1992 and 2018, burning about 94 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Debris and open burning
65
Equipment and vehicle use
29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
22
Arson/incendiarism
5
Other causes
4
Recreation and ceremony
3
Fireworks
2
Smoking
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
29 workings within 5 miles of Medford Free Public Library: 18 past producers, 6 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Medford, the town this property stands in, in 60 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 35 thunderstorm wind, 18 hail, 3 heavy rain, 2 tornado.
The reports record 1 death. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Flooding was reported along County Road M, which closed one lane. There were also reports of washouts in some nearby backyards. In fact, a large part of a back yard of a residence near the intersection of County Road E and M was washed into a lake.
This weak EF-0 started northwest of Medford, mainly producing tree damage along a 1 mile long path before lifting 2 minutes later. The damage path was identified with video footage of the tornado and drone footage provided by Taylor County Emergency Management.
A large area of low pressure over the Upper Mississippi Valley triggered isolated severe thunderstorms over northwest, north-central, and southwest Wisconsin. Hail up to nickel-size fell and there were reports of large trees and power lines downed by the powerful winds in Bloomingdale (Vernon County), and in Medford (Taylor County).
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
3 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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